The strange person and the strange smile made Stephen feel strange.
However, when he looked up again, what he saw in front of him was an ordinary middle-aged man wearing a windbreaker, taking the subway home with a briefcase in hand.
Stephen was wondering, but suddenly he was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and read the newspaper.
He felt that he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it at all. After trying hard for a while, he gave up and started looking for interesting news in the newspaper.
It's just that most of the content in the newspapers is lackluster. Apart from what happened to superhumans, it's basically anti-war demonstrations across the country and violent incidents related to black people.
Stephen couldn't help feeling that the black problem is really America's original sin, and things about black people have never stopped since the Civil War.
Whether it is Martin Luther King or Malcolm
Fight for rights and interests.
But whether it is Booker T. Washington’s industrial self-improvement and political compromise, Du Bois’s improvement of his own quality, Martin Luther King’s non-violent resistance, or Malcolm X’s all-out violent confrontation, in the fight for rights and interests
On the road to fighting racial discrimination, black Americans have tried too many ways and experienced too many failures.
What Stephen only knew was that two black movement leaders, Martin Luther King and Malcolm
As a doctor, Stephen is sympathetic to black people, but he also has to admit that some black people with low quality are really instinctively disgusting.
But this is not because of their race, but because of the influence of their acquired environment.
As a doctor and a famous doctor with profound knowledge in neurosurgery, Stephen knows the human body very well. He has operated on as many as 800 patients, whether they are white or white.
There is no obvious difference in body structure or body functions between black people and yellow people. The biggest difference caused by racial differences is their skin color.
As for the statement that white people are stronger and smarter, this is entirely because white people have better educational resources and living standards, while black people's living conditions are much worse.
This is also the reason why black Americans are always associated with things like violent crime, because their living environment is indeed full of violent crimes, which leads to black people who grew up in this environment being able to step out of their native environment and work hard to make progress.
Only a very small number.
Coupled with the transparent ceiling caused by implicit discrimination, there are even fewer black people who can get ahead.
However, there is no doubt that this problem cannot be solved by him as a doctor. Even figures like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X cannot achieve it. Stephen does not feel that he can make any change.
He sighed, sat on the subway seat and took a nap for a while. It wasn't until the subway arrived that he got off the train and walked out of the subway station, returning to his rented apartment.
After that, Stephen's life seemed to be back on track. He became more and more comfortable with the work in the clinic. Although it was difficult for him to treat patients sincerely and sincerely wanted to cure them, he still just regarded it as a job.
This does not prevent him from getting along well with the patients, and their relationship is getting better and better.
After all, most of the people who can come to the clinic for medical treatment are residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. No one would go all the way to see a doctor in a small clinic like this, even if the doctor is highly skilled.
Although the relationship between him and Kristen has not made any progress, at least the relationship between the two parties is stable now. Perhaps when Stephen can move further from this small clinic and the economic situation improves, the relationship between the two will also have a change.
Same improvement right?
With this idea in mind, Stephen works hard and conscientiously every day, and does not just dawdle around just because this is just a small clinic and not as good as the big hospitals he used to stay in.
It's just that a small clinic is a small clinic. It's very rare and amazing to be able to treat a headache and fever. There are no effective treatments for more serious illnesses. It's enough to prescribe some opioid analgesics to patients to make them less painful in the last stage of their lives.
It's an act of kindness.
But even so, Stephen still clearly feels that the number of patients in the clinic has increased significantly recently, and most of them are accompanied by very serious evil illnesses.
If it were at the hospital where he used to work, he might be able to surgically remove the cancer tumor lesions, but in this small clinic, in addition to prescribing painkillers, he could only allow these patients to do whatever they could if they could.
Maybe he went to a big hospital for consultation.
At the end of another busy day, Stephen walked out of the clinic wrapped in a coat. A gust of cold wind blew by, making him shiver. After tightening his tight clothes, he walked quickly to the subway station.
However, he accidentally tripped over a corpse on the ground and almost fell.
But Stephen didn't pay too much attention. He just cursed that the New York police didn't even collect corpses on the streets. He had no other emotions and just turned around and walked into the subway station.
In the subway station, Stephen was standing on the platform waiting for the subway. He thought that today's troubles would be over, but unexpectedly, a street girl suddenly came up to him and said to him: "For 20 dollars, I can make him
You ascend to heaven! My name is Qin, believe me, I didn’t lie to you.”
Stephen looked intently at the woman standing on the street, and saw that the woman had dirty red hair that looked like it had not been taken care of for a long time. She was also wearing the same dirty clothes, and her chest was covered with dirty clothes.
He even has a prominent phoenix tattoo, which looks quite sexy.
But Stephen had no interest in this. He just took out a one-dollar bill from his pocket and gave it to the street woman, signaling her to stay away from him.
Holding a dollar, the red-haired street girl showed a dissatisfied expression on her face, but she didn't force it. She turned around and left with a disappointed look on her face.
Stephen didn't pay attention, but he still heard her complaining about something like "I thought I could have a bed to sleep at night" and "I haven't taken a shower in a long time."
The subway quickly entered the platform. Stephen got on the train, found a seat and sat down casually. He soon forgot what happened on the platform.
However, just as the train was about to close, Stephen saw a one-eyed man wearing an eyepatch on the platform pointing a gun at the street girl, and then shot her through the chest.
Stephen clearly saw the bullet piercing through the phoenix tattoo on the woman's chest, exploding into a flower of blood, taking the woman's life and dyeing the tattoo on her chest blood red.
This scene immediately frightened Stephen. He was about to stand up and shout, but was interrupted by the closed door of the subway car. He could only see through the window in vain the large number of police officers who poured out of the platform after the one-eyed man fired.
"Looks like he's another super human. These damn guys should all be shot!" An old man sitting next to him seemed to have seen what happened on the platform, and suddenly said with a very angry expression: "They all should be shot!"
It's because of them that our jobs have been taken away, the federal government doesn't care, and President
Let’s make us great again!”
Hearing what the old man said, Stephen couldn't help but turn his head and look at him. What he saw was a messy golden hair, but it was obvious that he was balding, which was only covered by combing his hair sideways.
Stephen didn't want to participate in this discussion, so he turned his head and looked to the other side.
On the other side was a man in a suit who was reading a newspaper. A piece of news in the newspaper in his hand attracted Stephen's attention.
A truck full of radioactive materials overturned and leaked. Excessive amounts of radioactive material splashed out, blinding a young man on the side of the road. He then died of excessive radiation. His name seemed to be Matt.
·Murdoch.
This news was only written in a corner of the newspaper and did not seem to be important news.
Stephen glanced at the news and could only sigh helplessly at the fragility of human life and the seriousness of radiation contamination.
…
In the days that followed, it seemed as if the entire world was getting worse and worse as the weather worsened.
When the sky in New York began to become continuously cloudy and it rained continuously for days, more people died on the streets.
Many of them are superhumans who were executed by the government. It seems that because President
Basically, after being caught, they are killed first and asked later. They are not spared but killed by mistake.
But the people are quite numb to this, and there are even many people who oppose superhumans cheering and applauding their actions.
It is difficult for Stephen to evaluate whether there is a problem with this. Although there may be some problems with the police law enforcement process, even people like Stephen who are indifferent to external things have some aversion to those superhuman beings.
Because these superhumans are so capable of causing trouble, newspapers report almost every day how much damage they have caused today, how much property damage they have caused due to accidents, and... the huge casualties caused by some superhumans with bad personalities.
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Yes, although superhumans seem to be targeted miserably, in fact there are still some powerful superhumans who are still fighting against the current US government. The reason why President
To a certain extent, this is because President
However, I heard that Congress is considering passing a bill to authorize President
In addition, Congress has directly approved President
Frost will soon become the prison's first superhuman prisoner for abusing children and conducting illegal experiments on them.
Stephen has heard the name of this priestess, and it seems that she prefers to call herself the White Queen. She originally ran an orphanage and accumulated a good reputation by adopting orphans.
But no one thought that on the surface she was a kind-hearted orphanage director, but secretly she was using these adopted children to conduct experiments, and through various cruel experiments, she intended to activate what she thought was the soul of these children.
Control talent.
But this was of no use at all. Not only did they not develop the superpower of mind control, they also indirectly or directly killed a large number of children. Their bones were piled in the basement of the orphanage. When the police came in, they all
What I saw was a wall full of bones.
"What a damn super human!" Although he still felt that something was wrong in this world, Stephen didn't care so much and just cursed like everyone else.
But compared to superhuman beings, what Stephen wants to curse more is probably this bad world.
Although his memory is occasionally slightly confused, Stephen clearly remembers that with the death of these superhuman beings, the entire world seems to be getting worse and worse, instead of getting better as promised by President X.
It seems that even President
However, the good news is not without it. It is said that the FBI and CIA have jointly launched an operation against the Avengers, intending to solve this organization established by the separatists once and for all and cut off the problem from the source.
But how effective this would be, Stephen was skeptical.
It's just that compared to these, he is more concerned about whether he should ask Christine to have dinner with him on the weekend and go shopping to buy himself a coat.
The weather in New York is almost approaching winter, and he needs some warmer clothes to keep out the cold.
At this moment, Stephen vaguely heard someone in the carriage mentioning words such as "circus", "Johnny Blaze", "pouring gasoline on his head and lighting it on fire", "Ghost Rider from Hell" and so on.
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It seems that a crazy circus motorcyclist lit his head on fire with gasoline during a performance, and burned his head into a skull.
Hearing these discussions, Stephen had a look of disgust on his face, and while sighing that the society would do anything to attract attention, he turned around and got off the subway, braving the cold wind and walking towards his home.
It's just that he doesn't know if it's his illusion or because he stayed in the clinic for a long time, but he always feels that the wind and rain in New York are mixed with the smell of dead bodies.
